Arguments (especially political/ideological ones) framed as personal advice

Woah, this one is a little different

I'm still on Reddit too, and I bet a lot of people who came here from there are. Lemmy just isn't a fully viable replacement yet.

That's the thing about that sort of censorship though, you can only guess what it might have been. Your guess seems plausible, but it's just a guess, and when the guess that Reddit mods were acting in good faith turns out to have been wrong, they don't want you to know about it.

The clip was uploaded to X, formerly Twitter, where it went viral receiving 6.5 million views and 70,000 likes.

... And yet despite that this article is full of hyperlinks to the news site's topic pages, an embedded video barely related to the title at the top, and an embedded tweet also only loosely related, there is no link to this video of the titular historian's words, how frustrating. They quote two brief statements:

Rigueur said, "One of the things that Bernie Sanders has been saying since at least 2014 has been about how the Democratic party, if it wants to keep these coalitions, needs to talk about bread-and-butter issues. It needs to talk about politics."

Rigueur said that it's not that "cultural politics don't matter," but that both areas need to be a part of the Democrats' platform.

I assume it's ultimately serious (they want to drop the pretense that it's about the value of the life of a fetus) but a use of irony poisoning on some level. Some real zero self awareness assholes regardless.

Supposedly it was coined by some right wing influencer and went viral

I found a source that includes the second half which makes it more obvious:

Dr. Macho believes #42’s behavior is intentional and aimed specifically at him. “I caught him laughing at me once while I was trying to sort data he’d fucked up. I know what you’re thinking, ‘Can rats even laugh? And what would it look like?’ Trust me, when a rat laughs at you, you’ll know.”

When asked why he doesn’t simply exchange #42 for a less malicious rat, Dr. Macho explained, “You can’t just use an infinite number of lab rats. They start to think you’re a psycho if you keep asking for more.” Dr. Macho sighed. “I feel like I’m living in an annoying Pixar movie where I’m the bad guy – oh, wait….I’m the bad guy. I’m the evil scientist performing experiments on a sassy, smart rat. And my name is Dr. Stu Macho? Oof, yeah, I’m the wrong one here.”

Just behind Dr. Macho, #42 winked and walked directly into his food bowl.

The diet experiment is presented as present tense. The cat smell experiment is described with "I once ran an experiment", part of the speaker's "thesis", which is in the past. They are clearly keeping #42 alive to be used in totally separate research, in this fictional The Onion esque scenario.

They do not take rats from say a maze solving study, then give them diabetes for a different study, then give them a brain tumor before putting them in the decapicone (a real product).

I figured, but in the meme story this is pretty explicitly what is happening.

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I am now distinctly aware that the last time I read this comic I didn't know who Kafka was